The Key West Resort & Casino announces its
NEW $20 chip for 2017
Our new $20 chip will be Dayglo Saturn with Green 312 spots
Last year, we started a discussion on what a new $20 chip might look like for the Key West line. There were some great suggestions. I really liked several, and seriously considered several of the other combinations offered. (Canary with chocolate and Saturn with chocolate looked fantastic, too.) The fact that I could not decide for a year shows how difficult the choice really was for me. NEW $20 chip for 2017
Our new $20 chip will be Dayglo Saturn with Green 312 spots
Reasoning for this selection:
First, I wanted a distinct $20 chip that would go with the Key West colors. The new design clearly calls to mind lemon and lime, and goes well with the Key West logo. It's also the color scheme that got the most votes in last year's poll.
Above, you see the new $20, and in the lower part of the frame it's shown with two other chips -- the nickel and the $1,000 chip.
The new $20 is most similar to the $1,000 chip, but I think the colors are distinct enough. Also, I seriously doubt a $20 and a $1,000 would be on the same table at the same time. They're made for different tables -- one tournament, one cash. And if you're playing a cash game with $1,000 chips involved, what would you want with these chips when you could be getting comped at a casino in Vegas?
I also felt it would be important to have some green on the chip. It's value is closest to the $25, so this made sense to me. There would be no reason to have a $20 and a $25 on the same table. The $20 would clearly be for a cash table. When I thought of a new $20, I immediately thought of some shade of green, and had the $20 bill in mind the whole time.
While considering the choices, I really liked the canary and chocolate offered by BGinGA, and the Saturn and chocolate suggested by BrianB. Those chips were so similar to the butterscotch / chocolate nickel in the set that I thought they were too close in appearance and too different in value.
In the end, the choice was extremely difficult. I hope you like the selection.
New $20s expected in 2017
Right now, a new order is in at Classic Poker Chips that includes a very limited number of the new $20 chips. If you are seriously interested in a rack, a barrel or a sample, please post here. If we go over the number I've ordered, David, Jim and the good folks at Classic have been kind enough in the past to allow me to add to the order up until the chips are actually in production.
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